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Areas of Specialization: Geropsychiatry,
cultural psychiatry, mood disorders
e-mail:
irene.ortiz@va.gov
Selected Publications:
Ortiz IE, Romero LJ, Cultural implications for assessment and
treatment of depression
in Hispanic
elderly,
Annals of Long-Term Care (in press)
Ortiz IE, Torres, EC, Curanderismo and the treatment of alcoholism:
findings from focus group of Mexican curanderos, Alcoholism
Treatment Quarterly 2007;25(4):79-90
Romero LJ, Ortiz IE, Finley MR, Wayne S, Lindeman RD,
Prevalence of depressive
symptoms in
New Mexico Hispanic and non-Hispanic white elderly,
Ethnicity and
Disease Autumn 2005;15:691-697
Romero LJ, PJ Garry ,
M Schuyler, DA Bennahum, C Qualls, L Ballinger, V Kelly, C
Schmitt, B
Skipper, IE Ortiz, RL Rhyne, Emotional responses to APOE
genotype
disclosure
for Alzheimer Disease
J of Genetic
Counseling 2005;14(2):141-150
Ortiz IE, LaRue A,
Romero LJ, Sassaman MF, Lindeman RD: Comparison of cultural bias in
two
cognitive
screening instruments in elderly Hispanic patients in New Mexico.
Am J Geriatr
Psychiatry
1997; 5(4); 333-338 |